Alexander Armstrong: What single thing would improve the quality of your life?

The question

What single thing would improve the quality of your life?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Alexander Armstrong

English actor, comedian, broadcaster and singer

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I am going a bit deaf and I am hoping that technology is going to come on leaps and bounds and that one day I will hear better.

Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 November 2010 source ↗

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Stephen Dillane British actor

A sense of purpose.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2014 source ↗

Charles Collingwood

If you’d asked me last year, I would have said a knee replacement.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 March 2025 source ↗

Ed Harris American actor and director

A new administration here in the US.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2007 source ↗

Denise Welch

Stopping being such a helicopter parent and worrying about these grownup children’s lives. It drives me mad. And I am having therapy. If I could stop thinking that I should be their first port of call for everything, it would free my head up a bit.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2023 source ↗

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Question What did you want to be when you were growing up? Identity & self

When I was little I wanted to be a conductor. I knew there was a man in a smart coat who waved his arms around at the opera and I thought: "There's the job for me."

Recorded Laura Potter, This much I know, The Guardian, 13 March 2010 source ↗